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Are you looking to enhance security and regulatory compliance around email, without having to add staff? SilverSky offers a game-changing Email Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution, run on IBM SoftLayer, which can help. Read this paper to learn more and for helpful tips on preventing data loss.

Companies today are able to focus more time on their core competencies by trusting email and other resource-intensive activities to experts in the cloud. Thinking of moving services to the cloud? Read SilverSky’s comprehensive list of things to consider when evaluating cloud-based email solutions.

In order to control employee costs, you must first track and understand them. That's where a time and labor management system can help. Not only will you have the data you need to make cost-effective decisions, but you'll be able to determine the best way to optimize your workforce.
This white paper outlines the critical features and criteria recommended in selecting an effective time and labor management system.

Most business owners are familiar with the tasks involved in tracking employee time and attendance. Typically, this involves the collection of time sheets or cards, adding and approving time totals, and the calculation of data -- all of which are subject to error. What is not commonly understood is the extent to which automation can simplify and improve this essential business process.
This white paper outlines the strategic advantages of an automated time and labor management system for businesses and employees.

Virtualization has changed data centers from static to flowing, and this fluidity has brought challenges to resource allocation. Find out how your organization can stay ahead of the curve.
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Virtualization means applications now compete for resources such as storage, CPU cycles and memory, often leading to bottlenecks and unhappy customers. Find out how you can improve your VM performance.
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Paying for performance seems like a simple idea, but if poorly executed, it can demotivate employees and waste time and money on an ineffective plan.
Download our latest whitepaper, Strengthen the Link Between Pay & Performance. You’ll learn the following to help you on your path to developing a pay for performance plan:
• 5 checkpoints on the road to success
• 4 things you can do now
• 9 questions you should ask to decide if your company is ready
• Why pay-for-performance is considered the “holy grail” of pay structures among some circles.
PayScale has your back in tough employee conversations. Fresh, detailed market data and easy reporting make those tough conversations simple and effective.
Creating pay with performance has proven to improve employee retention in many companies. See how you can get started with this valuable resource from PayScale.

The costs of e-discovery are mind-blowing. Despite the technologists who announce advancements in storage, search and retrieval software to help drive down the unit costs, the frequency and sheer volume of e-discovery pushes costs in the opposite direction. With the ever burgeoning amount of data that is being created and retained each and every day, despite our best efforts to “govern” its retention, these costs seem destined to only escalate and further cut into corporate profits.

This new Gartner report reviews 17 vendors of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions. Based on its own expert analysis and backed up by in-depth interviews with users in the space, Gartner has just published the Magic Quadrant for Data Center Infrastructure Management Tools for the first time.

Much of the focus on flexible datacenters centers around the software application, compute, networking, and storage layers. Only after an initiative has begun are the most suitable best practices in datacenter infrastructure management (DCIM)
considered.

The challenges faced by midsize businesses remain daunting. An uncertain economic outlook, slow market growth and cost pressures continue to affect most industries. Yet, in most geographies, IT spending by midsize businesses is increasing. This report deals with this cost/benefit equation. Specifically, it compares the IBM i 7.1 operating system deployed on Power Systems with two alternatives: use of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, and use of x86 Linux with Oracle Database 11g, both deployed on Intel-based servers.

The data center is challenged. Many midsize businesses simply do not have designated personnel to care for their data center; they have only a standard room to host the company server and storage infrastructure and have no luxury to expand. In short, they must work within their constrained space.

IBM PureFlex Systems combine advanced IBM hardware and software with “patterns of expertise” and integrate them into three optimized configurations that are simple to acquire and deploy. Read the data sheet to learn more about configurations optimized for small businesses, application servers, and transactional and database systems.

SAP users have been slow to adopt cloud computing, but IBM PureFlex Systems offer the potential to transform the server, storage and network infrastructures that support SAP enterprise environments and extend management services to non-SAP applications. Read this executive summary to learn how PureFlex Systems can dramatically reduce costs and cycle times.

Cabot Partners offers a glimpse into the market trends for SAP adoption in midsize businesses and imperatives for the supporting platform. A case is made for a simpler virtualized solution, designed for easy installation and operation and cost-effective scaling for growth.

Discusses why converged systems, such as IBM PureSystems platforms, can radically simplify the IT life cycle and how these changes can deliver business value by accelerating time to market, improving application performance, and reducing required staff time.

Using data from real customer deployments, Solitaire examines differentiators for network infrastructure deployments on either PowerLinux or Windows. PowerLinux clearly emerges as a preferred platform.